[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Public Records

[Spencer Graves]

Below please find a letter I sent to the Mercury responding to their 
editorial yesterday, "Public Records Act must be restored" 
(http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23485981/mercury-news-editorial-public-records-act-must-be). 
Comments?  Best Wishes, Spencer


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Public Records
Date: 	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:01:58 -0700
From: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org>
To: 	letters at mercurynews.com



The Mercury News editorial on the Public Records Act provides good
examples of problems that would have gotten worse without transparency.
Current international news includes other examples such as Iran's
nuclear program.  Fifty years ago, the US Central Intelligence Agency
organized a coup that destroyed democracy there, replacing it with state
terror under the Shah.  In 1980 as the Iranian public stood in the
streets until the Shah fled, the US pushed Saddam Hussein to attack
Iran.  A few years later, the US provided chemical and biological
warfare technology to Saddam Hussein, which he used during that period.
Are we better off today because of these and many other acts of war
taken by the US government without the knowledge of the electorate?


-- 
Spencer Graves, PhD
Executive Director
effectivedefense.org
751 Emerson Ct.
San José, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567
web:www.effectivedefense.org




-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San José, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567
web:  www.structuremonitoring.com

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